August 9th 

4, 5, 6

We are pretty sure someone messed up and mislabeled  our chicks, or is terrible at sexing chicks.

We think at least two, possible three, of our CouCou Marans were Roosters, we gave them to a friend. I am pretty sure two more of the same breed as "Rooster" are also Roosters. The Sickle shaped, colorful tail feathers are almost as telling as a Crow. UGH.

The good news is that it means we will get rid of enough to be able to do ISA Brown and Black Australorp chicks in the spring. Two breeds we have come to really like. the ISA's are super friendly and the Australorps are pretty and good Mama hens.

In the mean time we will hope Rooster and Kylo don't hurt each other and are content with their four hens each...

September 5,

7, 8????

Seriously 7 Roosters from a 1 in 10 chance. Sadly the last two were some of our favorite colored ones. 

Someone on Craigslist said they had a similar problem this year.  A Friend took all the extra roosters for us and is going to keep one for them, one for a neighbor, and likely eat the rest.  We found someone with  4 one year old hens on Craigslist, we plan to pick them up Monday so then we would have 10 hens for our 2 roosters. We were worried with only 6 hens out there and 2 roosters they would fight too much and I would get hurt. The new hens are suppose to be golden sexlinks, basically look like our ISA Brown that we really like. Hopefully they will integrate well.

I was thinking today, for people with just pets the number of chickens that have come and gone here in the past 2 years it must be crazy. It is more than we expected, some were beyond our control, but some were just part of our learning process and some are part of the nature of chickens.

We have enjoyed the ride